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Fujian Province in east China has made steady advancements in wind power development, playing a significant role in the country’s efforts to reshape its energy structure. In Fuqing City, the Xinghua Bay offshore wind farm has 59 wind turbine units, with a total installed capacity of 357.4 megawatts. It has generated over 5.2 billion kilowatt-hours… Read More
Offshore wind turbines could provide a huge amount of the clean, renewable energy that we need to be able to leave behind dirty, polluting energy sources like gas and oil. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, wind turbines installed in the open ocean are pretty difficult to maintain. Now, a new innovation could make that maintenance a… Read More
In recent times, we have learned about several major corrective maintenances (replacement of a main component) that have had to be carried out on some of the pioneering floating wind farms worldwide. This was the case with Hywind Scotland, which had to tow its 5 SWT-6.0-154s to port, and also with Kincardine, which had to do the same with at least some of… Read More
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and other state officials will travel to Norway and Denmark this week to speak with government and energy leaders about the offshore wind industry. Over the six-day trip, the group plans to “promote and position Maine as a world leader in the responsible development and deployment of offshore wind,” the governor’s… Read More
The world’s first semi-submersible wind farm is making waves with the incredible amount of energy it’s producing. According to Interesting Engineering, WindFloat Atlantic, located off the coast of Portugal, was the first semi-submersible wind farm in the world. Built in 2020, the installation has blown past projections for output in its four years of operation, putting… Read More
BOSTON & HARTFORD, Conn.–Eversource Energy (NYSE: ES) today announced that it has completed the sale of its 50 percent interest in the 132-megawatt South Fork Wind project (South Fork Wind) and the 704-megawatt Revolution Wind project (Revolution Wind) to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Adjusted gross proceeds from the transaction were $745 million. Adjusted gross proceeds… Read More
Rotterdam, The Netherlands – Van Oord’s subsidiary MPI Offshore has signed a three-year framework contract with Vattenfall for the charter of offshore installation vessel MPI Resolution. The MPI Resolution will be tasked with servicing Vattenfall turbines with a maximum power output of 5 MW across Northern Europe. Wind turbines rotate and inevitably experience wear and… Read More
Lara Jewinat, one of the employee-elected members of the Board of Directors of Ørsted A/S, has stepped down as board member. The first alternate, Leticia Torres Mandiola (Lead Strategy Consultant, Commercial), has replaced Lara Jewinat as employee-elected board member of Ørsted A/S. About Ørsted The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green… Read More
Download this Press ReleasePDF Format (opens in new window) HOUSTON — McDermott has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract by QatarEnergy LNG for the North Field South (NFS) Offshore Pipelines and Cables Project. This new contract is in addition to the awards received by McDermott earlier for the NFS Pipelines FEED, the… Read More
A proposed 400-acre terminal to assemble and deploy floating offshore wind turbines received a boost this week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill allowing the Port of Long Beach, which is pursing the ambitious project, to streamline the design and construction of the plan, known as Pier Wind. Assembly Bill 2235 — authored by… Read More
ATLANTIC CITY — The federal government gave a key approval Tuesday to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey, even as residents in the town where its power cable would come ashore worry it could go through underground toxic waste that’s still being cleaned up. The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management approved Atlantic Shores’ plan to construct… Read More
KF Wind, a floating offshore wind project being developed off the coast of Ulsan by Ocean Winds and Mainstream Renewable Power, has completed the geotechnical survey for the first phase of its project, East Blue Power, which has 375 MW of installed capacity. The geotechnical survey was carried out for approximately one month by Geo… Read More
New Jersey’s first planned offshore wind project took a major step forward Oct. 1. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced approval of the Atlantic Shores South plan to construct and operate two wind energy facilities Tuesday. The project, compromised of Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind 1 and 2, will stand between Atlantic City and Long Beach… Read More
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has announced that it is delaying the offshore wind energy auction planned for potential lease areas offshore Oregon due to insufficient bidder interest at this time. On August 29, 2024, the Department of the Interior announced the Final Sale Notice (FSN) for offshore wind leasing on the Outer Continental… Read More
BRIGANTINE, N.J. — Opponents of offshore wind around the U.S. are pelting projects with lawsuits seeking to cancel them or tie them up for years in costly litigation. The court cases represent another hurdle the nascent industry must overcome, particularly along the East Coast where opposition to offshore wind farms is vocal and well-organized. They… Read More